The Healthy Soils Project

• NYS Community Garden Map. Interactive map of more than 900 community gardens in NYS, based on the work of New York State Department of Health as part of the Healthy Soils, Healthy Communities Project. August 2015. Please note: the gardens on the map may not appear in some versions of Internet Explorer such as IE11; opening the page in an “in-private” browsing window or using another browser should resolve this issue.
• Project information sheet. 1pg (PDF), updated March 2010.
• Project summary/abstract. 1pg (PDF), updated October 2012.
• Project overview poster. 1pg (PDF), updated April 2010.
• Dilmun Hill Student Farm - research farm operated by Cornell students, and Healthy Soils project research site.
• Urban Chickens: Another Human Exposure Pathway for Soil Lead? November 2013 audio presentation and abstract.

Healthy Soils Research Manuscripts

• Estimated Lead (Pb) Exposures for a Population of Urban Community Gardeners. 1 page summary (PDF). Published in Environmental Geochemistry and Health, online January 2016.
• Concentrations of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in New York City Community Garden Soils: Potential Sources and Influential Factors. 1 page summary (PDF). Published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, online December 2015.
• Arsenic and Lead Uptake by Vegetable Crops Grown on an Old Orchard Site Amended with Compost. Accepted manuscript (PDF). Published in Water, Air, & Soil Pollution. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11270-015-2529-9
• Lead and Other Metals in Urban Garden Vegetables. Accepted manuscript (PDF) and 1 page summary (PDF). Published in Environmental Pollution, 194:254-261, 2014.
• Metals in NYC Community Gardens. Manuscript (PDF) and 1 page summary (PDF). Published in Environmental Pollution, 187:162-169, 2014.
• Lead (Pb) in NYC Community Garden Chicken Eggs. Manuscript (PDF). Published in Environmental Geochemistry and Health, online November 2013.

 

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